A time for getting together with the family, sharing gifts, wearing silly hats, eating turkey, getting drunk and perhaps even celebrating Jesus, if you're that way inclined?

Or just another way to shaft you out of money buying crap for idiots who wont even like it anyway (but getting a day off work in the process)?

Chappy Channukkah.

I like getting off from work and knowing that work isnt piling up in my absence because everyone else on the planet is gone too.

NOT CRAP

The gift-getting and buying, though? I dunno. It's materialistic and a pain-in-the-ass, but I still think it's a nice thing to do for folks you love, even if it isnt the thing I like best about the holiday. My mom wants to learn Spanish. I'm buying her some CDs to listen to in the car. And mebbe a TiVo.

Some people complain about how it's gotten too secular and away from being strictly a celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ. Then other people complain about how Yule or Solstice or whatever was totally stolen by the Christians, and it's all been diluted from what it originally was.

I don't care about any of that. I don't care what it was, or what it was supposed to be. What it is is giving and receiving and trees and lights and cakes and pies and all kinds of NOT CRAP.

(xmas music in stores is crap, but not crap enough to make xmas not not crap.)

Friends, family, and FUN. Christmas is a BLAST.
This is my living room window, as seen from da outside.

Wet grass tonight, shoulda put some shoes on....

Linus Van Pelt wrote:Some people complain about how it's gotten too secular and away from being strictly a celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ. Then other people complain about how Yule or Solstice or whatever was totally stolen by the Christians, and it's all been diluted from what it originally was.

I don't care about any of that. I don't care what it was, or what it was supposed to be. What it is is giving and receiving and trees and lights and cakes and pies and all kinds of NOT CRAP.

"That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."

from my teens till my son was born I couldn't give a rats ass about christmas. but, watching my little guy so happy opening his presents is a feeling that no drug could ever give. a pure warmth that glows. cheezy as it may be, watching a 2 or 3 year old open presents and seing the pure joy and excitement on their faces is magic. maybe when he's 12 and i can't afford the gift he's hoping for and all i see is dissapointment when he doesn't get it, i'll change my mind. till then, i will enjoy.

so, on this christmas it will be endless batman and robin and spiderman and more small ass toys that i will step on in the dark in my bare feet on the way to take a leak.

now if santa could just make his mom go away, then it really would be a nice christmas.

capnreverb wrote:now if santa could just make his mom go away, then it really would be a nice christmas.

ho! ho! ho!

I'm gonna go ahead and admit that as a Jew I always kind of resent Christmas. It always feels like Christian hegemony run amok. Part of this has to do with growing up in a place where people go crazy over Christmas and barely know what a Jew is. I have a lot of memories of having to do Christmas-y things at school and being really annoyed at that.

That said, I like Christmas lights a lot. And the trees smell nice.

I'm not voting on this one, though. It seems really lame to call Christmas "crap."

Speaking of Christmas lights, I've noticed a vague ethinc correlation in Christmas light choice. It seems like WASP-y types are more likely to go with the all-white lights, while everyone else likes the multi-colored varieties. Me, I like the multi-colors.

To each his own.............